Kalakand

One of  my favourite recipe and very famous in north india. Generally we use to it make it in our home in day to day life But this recipes takes time so most of us  makes it ocassanllly ...it have sweet miky taste in it. In india some people called it Milk cake also .so enjoy this Milk cake .

Ingredients:

• 8 cups or 2 quart milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2-3 Tbsp Lomon juice (for makinf paneer)
• 10-12  sliced almonds or pistachio for garnishing

Method:

Making Paneer:

• Boil the 4 cups of milk in a heavy bottomed pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, making sure not to burn milk.

•  when milk comes to a boil, add the lemon juice and stir the milk gently. The curd will start separating from the whey, now turn off the heat.

• Once the milk fat has separated from the whey, drain the whey using a strainer line with cheesecloth, or muslin cloth.

 

• Wrap the curds in a muslin cloth, rinse under cold water, and squeeze well. This process takes out the sourness from the lemon.
• To take out the excess water, squeeze the wrapped paneer.
•  Do not knead the paneer.

Making Kalakand:

• Now Boil remaning 4 cup of the milk in a heavy bottom frying pan on medium high heat until the milk reduces to about two cups or one and half cup .
• Make sure to frequently stir the milk as the milk burns easily in bottom of the pan.
• When it reamins 2 cup Add the paneer in the milk

•            Add sugar and keep stirring till the mixture thickness and form a soft dough consistency.

 

• continue to cook and stirring until the mixture become soft lump and start leaving the pan from sides.

• Pour it over greased plate keeping about half inch thick.
• Let it cool for about one hour. Cut the kalakand in squares.
• Granish it with almond and pistcho.

Aloo Halwa Fasting

Aloo\Potato Halwa

Ingredients:

4 medium size potato
3 Tbsp Ghee
1/2 cup sugar

For Granshing
7-8 Almond(cut from between)
10 Raisins
Pinch of cardamom powder

Method:

wash and boil the potato on medium heat on two whistle or until they cooked very well  .

 Now peal,  grate or mash them finely.

Take  heavy bottom  pan on medium heat pour ghee ,potato and sugar .

Keep stirring  this ,till this turns in to golden brown heat or aroma comes 

stir this, till it leaves ghee or starting leaving the pan .There should be no lumps.

serve in to the bowl and garnish it with all the ingredients under the granshing section.

Note -  see the color of halwa and mashed potato both have so much of differences and you have to fry it until you get this golden brown color.

Khoya Til Laddo (Fatsing)

we can eat these ladoo in fast also, Sawan month  is going on and in this month we worship of God  shiva and have fast so i thought to make it .

Ingredients:

 1cup  Khoya\Mawa ( Dried whole milk)
 2TbspSesame Seeds (til  Coarsely powdered roasted )
 2Tbsp Powdered sugar
2tsp Almond powder(optional)
1 Tbsp shredded coconut
10-15 no of Raisins(For Garnishing)

Method:

1. Roast the khoya on low flame till it is very light golden yellow color.
2. Let is cool for few minutes.
3. Then add coarsely powdered roasted sesame seeds and mix it.
4. Add powdered sugar and almond powder and coconut .
5. Mix well and shape into small balls.
6. Decorate it with on the top from raisins.

For Khoya/Mawa:

1. Method for Making Khoya in Microwave:
2. Take three cups of full cream milk powder in microwave oven proof dish
3. Add sufficient water to make a thick paste.
4. Add 2 tablespoon of ghee.
5. Cover with plastic cling film and microwave for 3 minutes with in between stirring. (Time depends on power of Microwave oven.)

Note:- If the mixture is too hot then the sugar will melt so care has to be taken that mixture should not be hot.

• For almond powder take 20 -30 almond and grind it in to the mixi.

• For making the khoya wihout micowave chek here
• I used home made khoya from whole milk .